The man at the center of an alleged al Qaeda plot to bomb cities in Europe has told investigators the conspiracy was directed by one of the organization's most senior figures, according to European intelligence officials.

Ahmed Sidiqi, an Afghan German, was detained in Kabul in July and has since been questioned at the United States' Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the officials say. They say he has told interrogators that while in the tribal areas of Pakistan he met with a senior Al Qaeda leader, Younis al Mauretani, who was planning multiple attacks on European countries that would be similar to the attack on Mumbai, India, in 2008.
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Do you see that these 360 degree truth of murderers and terrorists are from all over the globe and they come to Pakistan's tribal regions to train and plan attacks against the western world since now they have no safe haven in Afghanistan. Pakistan must pick up the slack militarily against these terrorists in south and north Waziristan!

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